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ItsOkayToBeWight 7 points ago +7 / -0

Devil's advocate: As a society we are very, very wealthy. We should be able to afford so much more.

As for an arcade cabinet, emulation could make these things super cheap. The carpentry would probably be more expensive than the electronics. As a side benefit, one cabinet could play a thousand games.

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ItsOkayToBeWight 8 points ago +8 / -0

They are being actively promoted. Literally the bullied given a chance to get vengeance on the people that bullied them. It's a popular demoralization tactic.

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ItsOkayToBeWight 6 points ago +6 / -0

Autistic people are very well adapted to hunting. Being in nature is literally healing to them. The autistic attention to detail makes hunting more successful. Deer don't care about your social skills and your tribe will love you anyway if you can feed them.

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ItsOkayToBeWight 6 points ago +6 / -0

It's "exotic" and thus "neat". These liberals literally treat these endeavors like a zoo where the goal is to collect everything.

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ItsOkayToBeWight 3 points ago +3 / -0

I say they're not profitable, but that may have changed in recent years as tech has gotten better. However, the amount of marketshare entrenching still makes it hard for upstarts to compete since the users and content are significantly more important than the tech and infrastructure, which can only be marginally improved upon.

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ItsOkayToBeWight 14 points ago +14 / -0

Video streaming sites are not financially viable. Youtube, Twitch, etc are run at a loss for the sake of getting market share and suffocating competitors. Funding an entire industry for over a decade at a loss is not done for the sake of philanthropy.

by Lethn
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ItsOkayToBeWight 1 point ago +1 / -0

Perhaps I should have left that detail out. Reselling the book is merely a means to recoup some of the costs. Even if the books were thrown away, getting to the top of the chart is a relatively cheap way to boost real sales.

by Lethn
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ItsOkayToBeWight 4 points ago +4 / -0

If you want to get on the top of the NYT Best selling book list, you buy something like 5,000 copies of your own book from Amazon. Then sit on them for a while, put a fresh slip cover on them, and re-list them. It costs relatively little (because you're buying them from yourself) and getting to the top of that list gives you a lot more sales.

It would not surprise me if a similar scheme was done with video games.

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ItsOkayToBeWight 4 points ago +5 / -1

Firearms are a niche thing?

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ItsOkayToBeWight 15 points ago +16 / -1

I know reading comprehension is hard for you, but I want you to imagine this scenario: The year is 1939. The war hasn't started yet. However, we know exactly how far Germany's borders will extend at the height of the war. Now let's do a headcount on all of the jews in that region as of 1939. Assuming none of the jews flee the advancing army or take up arms against them. That's a potential 2.5 million jews to be captured and put into concentration camps.

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ItsOkayToBeWight 3 points ago +3 / -0

And we can't know because investigating homosexuality from that angle is "bigotry" and a stepping stone to conversion therapy.

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ItsOkayToBeWight 1 point ago +2 / -1

Yes. I purchase from stores where I only have to buy small amounts of meat at a time. This means I can enjoy many different prime cuts and they sometimes overlap because they didn't come from the same cow!

Okay so this week's sale was $7 for tbone, but the price is still very competitive with your whole cow.

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ItsOkayToBeWight 1 point ago +2 / -1

And I told you my local store sells tenderloin for $9/lb. And I regularly pick up t-bones for $6/lb.

Why is reading comprehension so difficult for you?

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ItsOkayToBeWight 1 point ago +2 / -1

The total cost of our all-natural, packaged beef, including processing fees for 2023, is about $7.39 per pound (take-home).

This is what I was getting at. This price is quite high and does not indicate much in the way of savings.

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ItsOkayToBeWight 1 point ago +1 / -0

People brag about paying $9/lb and getting ground beef and chuck roast from their half cow deal. And they get a tenderloin too, sure.

Or I can just buy the tenderloin for $9/lb and the ground meat for $4/lb from the market. I'm getting a cheaper deal from my local supermarket.

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ItsOkayToBeWight 5 points ago +5 / -0

I've heard about the quarter/half cow process but it comes out to like $8 or $9 per lb of meat. That's what I pay for tenderloin so I'm not sure how that is competitive.

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ItsOkayToBeWight 1 point ago +2 / -1

Meh, exploit it. Find a nice woman. Have babies. Don't register your marriage with the state. Have her get welfare as a single mom so she can be a stay at home mom while you work and give the kids a better future.

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